Industry · method
Industry register methodology
What a record has to contain before it is stored, and before the page holding it is published.
Evidence hierarchy
Every record cites at least one dated document, and every document is classified by what it is rather than by how convenient it is. A regulatory filing, a municipal record and a company's own press release are first-party evidence; a trade report is a secondary account of a first-party fact.
- Agency roster page
- Agency artist detail page
- Agency announcement
- Artist official site
- Trade press announcement
- Regulatory filing
- Court record
- Interview or on-record statement
- Official website of the entity
- Company press release
- SEC filing
- Municipal or public-authority record
- Trade press report
- News report
Status vocabulary
A relationship is confirmed only when a first-party document states it. Reported means a dated secondary account that Live Index has not re-confirmed against a first-party page; it does not mean the relationship is in doubt. Historical means the register holds an end date or a documented reason the relationship ended, and the row is kept, because the change is itself the finding.
- Confirmed
- Reported
- Historical
- Uncertain
Relation vocabulary
There is no general "controls" relationship. A relationship that cannot be typed precisely from the source is not recorded at all.
| Relation | Reads as |
|---|---|
| Ownership | A owns B |
| Majority ownership | A holds a majority stake in B |
| Minority investment | A holds a minority investment in B |
| Corporate parent | A is a subsidiary of B |
| Operation | A operates B |
| Lease | A leases B |
| Booking | A books B |
| Promotion | A promotes at B |
| Primary ticketing | A is the primary ticketing provider for B |
| Ticketing agreement | A holds a ticketing agreement with B |
| Ticketing platform in use | A sells tickets for B |
| Portfolio listing | A is listed in the published venue portfolio of B |
| Festival ownership | A owns B |
| Festival promotion | A promotes B |
| Festival production | A produces B |
| Acquisition | A acquired B |
| Divestiture | A divested B |
| Successor | A is the successor to B |
Publication threshold
An entity page is published to search engines only when the entity record rests on a first-party source, carries a written description, holds at least one current relationship, and reaches a substance score of 6. The score counts current relationships twice, and counts documented history and identifying attributes — location, website, founding year, capacity, ticker, filer identifier — once each.
Records below the threshold remain readable in the collection tables. They are not given their own indexed page, because a page holding one unverified line is not a reference document.
What these records cannot support
The register measures documentation, not the market. It cannot support statements about market share, revenue, the total number of venues a company operates, or the competitive effect of any relationship. A count of relationships in this register is a count of what Live Index has verified, and nothing more.
Corrections and additions are handled the same way as elsewhere on the site. Write to Live Index with the document, and the record is updated with a dated change entry rather than edited silently.